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ezgif.com is a great friend when it comes to making small gifs

I made a GDPR request for my data shortly after the law was enacted, and they provided me with 280mb of data for the past 90 days of me listening to music.

> One is running a custom Hue automation I built to shift the color temperature of the lights throughout the day.

Ooooh do you have the code up somewhere for this? I would love to set it up at home :)

Whilst I was in China two years ago, someone mentioned that you can swap out the memory of an iPhone with one from another iPhone (e.g. water damaged) to get around an iCloud lock. So although it's quite sophisticated as a method, it's definitely doable.

You can use Mastercard and Visa in many high end ish places like Starbucks, upscale shopping centers (like Cocopark in Shenzhen), nice restaurants. Virtually all ATMs also support these cards.

I built a microservice that does something similar[0] for Mailchimp. They have an API that requires a secret key, but we didn't want to keep a server running for it (and obviously didn't want anyone on the internet playing with our key). So I set up a little python service that serves a page and 'proxies' the API to the end user.

[0] https://github.com/sasha42/Mailchimp-utility

Coconut Battery also shows this, albeit with a graphical interface.

You can install it via 'brew cask install coconutbattery'

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Do you have a white paper?

We recently started using WebRTC to transmit video from Raspberry Pi's where I work. There were a lot of gotchas that weren't obvious to someone who's never worked with VOIP or related technology: STUN and TURN servers[0], 300 seconds idle timeouts that shouldn't affect the connection but killed the video stream regardless, and dropped calls which forced us to reboot the Pi.

In the end we managed to get something smooth working with UV4L[1] on a RPi costing us a fraction of the previous solution.

[0] http://numb.viagenie.ca/ has a free one

[1] https://www.linux-projects.org/

Gitlab does not have features parity with Github. I personally also stumbled upon a bizzare bug that doesn't allow a friend to add me to any of his private repo's. Asked on IRC and nothing much came of it unfortunately.

Is Ariba cXML an open standard? In my experience working with SAP stuff is incredibly complicated coming from a more traditional development background.

We have just recently started using React for new products that our team develops, doing the design in Sketch. This was already a huge improvement in efficiency compared to doing design in Photoshop and building products with Angular. I'm super excited to try this library on our next project and see how it can streamline the design and development cycle.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Arcade City[0], which is working on a peer to peer alternative to Uber and Lift, using a blockchain. Drivers set their own prices, and there are no georestrictions like on Uber.

[0] https://arcade.city/

Don't even get me started on the mac client... constantly drops calls, other end complains that sound quality is terrible despite high quality headphones, screen sharing stops suddenly mid presentation, can't see scheduled meeting directly in app, and overall horrible UX.

Also, despite the rigid security policy where I work, the mac client stores my password in the keychain.

We use Skype for Business at work, however when the boss isn't watching we switch to appear.in since it works much better and doesn't require craptastic software.

I'm sure it's easy, however right now the range part is where the blockage is: I get a SNR of -11 and RSSI of -107.. which results in just a few meters of transmission.

Using a Draguino Lora Shield + Hat combination, with the antenna which was in the box. Dunno what I'm doing wrong - what hardware and library did you use?

I want to learn and play with LoRa. It's a 'IoT' technology that allows you to communicate over long distances using amateur (unlicensed) radio bands. Some of my friends have achieved distances of over 40km, and I'm curious to see what I can do with it.

So far I've been able to get a ping between two modules over a 10m range. Next up I'd like to transmit some useful data over longer distances (temperature for example), and then move on to devices that provide useful data (eg when a train passes a certain point to see if it's on time).

Karabiner is quite cool but there were a few gotchas that were non intuitive for me. I wrote a getting started guide[0] a few months ago that starts right from the beginning.

[0] https://medium.com/@.sasha/hacking-apple-s-consumerist-cultu...

This is a pretty good overview of how Swiss people see Americans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-l59gZKLEI

Its from a comedy show which do shorts like this on all sorts of stereotypes, however this was the one of the most controversial ones. The US embassy even got involved in the end.

Have you played with Online's bucket service, C14 [0]? They seem to have the lowest pricing on the market.

[0] https://www.online.net/fr/c14

In my eyes, this kind of advertising has existed for quite a while, and is often times too subtle for most people to notice. Casey Neistat, one of the most popular daily vloggers on YouTube, is a great example of this. There are several recurring product placements in his videos, like the Boosted board, Samsung events, and certain airlines, for which there aren't any clear statements about. An example of these undisclosed partnerships/sponsorships was his 'surprise in South Africa' [0] video back from 2012, where it appears that the trip was sponsored by British Airways without any mention of it. At one point in the video, he makes it look like he's calling American Airlines, but in reality he didn't call (some comments back in the day called him out on it). On the other hand, he did mention that Samsung invited him to the Oscars.

I think most people will watch his videos regardless of whether he discloses his relationships, as was the case with the Nike 'make it count' [1] video which many (including me) found inspiring. However it is clear that it is becoming harder and harder to tell apart what is branded content/native advertising and what isn't.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Mg75awALA [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxfZkMm3wcg

How would one ship this custom executable with python 3? I have played around with aws lambda and zappa, this was a major frustration for me.

There are still some incidents that happen from time to time. In Geneva I've heard of someone going out for a smoke from a hotel accros from the main train station, and getting everything robbed; I've also heard of someone being beat up to the point of loosing an eye in Nyon (a town near Geneva). We also had the famous case of a guy who picked up hitchhikers, assaulted them before killing and abducting their bodies. Did so 11 times before he got caught [0].

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Peiry

The Raspberry Pi Zero has been available intermittently since it's release, and as of today it is in stock on Adafruit[0]. Many motivated people have been able to obtain it and build a few projects [1].

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/products/2885 [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/search?q=pi+zero&restr...

Their mother company (Online/Iliad/Free) does this to balance out their incoming/outgoing traffic in order to avoid to pay for transit, which is why they provide these services at/near cost.

A number of sites' paywalls can be bypassed by modifying your referrer, with an extension like Referer Control [0] for example. If we take WSJ, I entered their root URL as a site filter, and set a custom referrer (in this case 'https://www.google.com'). This works for many news sites [1], but LinkedIn for example seems to ignore this.

[0] Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

[0] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-cont...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/SsnpwrL.png

One thing that I'm having trouble with is HTTP/HTTPS streaming with VLC on Android. Almost every time it's unable to open the stream after trying to load it for a number of seconds. Does anyone else have this, or is it just me with some weird configurations?

For example, I wasn't able to stream any of the 32C3 streams, they only worked via the in-browser player.

Are you talking about something that would map out the API? The closest analogy to what I understood from your text was http://nodered.org/ in terms of design, I haven't seen anything like this for scraping yet. Definitely an interesting product to be made here if it doesn't exist yet.

I think it's because it's not seamlessly integrated into Github and instead relies on external services that aren't intercompatible. If Github integrated/bought one of these services and made everything work smoothly with their billing system, I think many people would love to contribute. Maybe even make "corporate" contributions, although I don't know how that would work.